At present our country is in a state of total economic stagnation because of the ominous concentration of wealth in the hands of a very few, which kills innovation in the rest of the population. There is no capital available for enterprising capitalists in the lower 99 percent of Americans because the capital for free enterprise is held by the powerful and greedy monopolies and oligarchies of the very rich one percent at the top who refuse to circulate such capital into the hands of those who would use it innovatively to create more capital.
Capitalism is dying because capital is frozen, held selfishly in the hands of the few. Capitalism, in order to flourish, needs a free and open flow of capital from top to bottom, lateral flows, diagonal flows, bottom to top flows, a complete stirring of the pool of capital in order to generate more capital.
National economic policy is determined by the few who care only about their own interests rather than economic policy being democratically determined as the founders of our nation desired it to be.
We have violated basic American values by going back to the dark ages before America was dreamed of, when power and wealth was horribly concentrated into and controlled by a few, essentially a quasi-communistic state which takes from everyone and yields what is taken from everyone to the few who deposit their take in Swiss bank accounts where it does not contribute anything to those from whom it was taken..
We need to critically re-examine our economic values in order to set them right, into a true free market system where, when an entity is “too big to fail” it is allowed to fail according to the law of free market enterprise. We have violated the terms of the free market and we must return to those terms in order for capitalism to survive.